KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration has urged all the ministries, commissions, secretariats, offices of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of all seven provinces and local levels to compulsorily give leave to the transferred civil servants within the stipulated period.

The Ministry has urged all bodies concerned to pay salaries and allowances from the old offices without giving leave to the employees who have been transferred in various pretexts.

Issuing a letter today, the Ministry has said that if the salary and allowances are paid to the employees transferred from the previous office without giving them the leave within the stipulated time, such salary and allowance will be recovered from the head of the office concerned and the account giving the accountant.

According to the ministry, it has been found that the employees who have been transferred in the recent past are not given leave even after the expiry of the recruitment period stipulated in the regulation, they are kept in the previous office on various pretexts and even after being transferred, the salary and allowances are paid from the previous office. This has created a serious problem in service delivery due to the shortage of manpower at the local level, the ministry said.

The Ministry has informed the concerned bodies that the transferred civil servants should be given leave compulsorily within the period stipulated by the law.

It has also urged the Office of the Auditor General to cooperate in the implementation of the decision by maintaining arrears in the course of auditing if the transferred employees were found to have been paid without any rest.

The move is expected to bring administrative stability and effectiveness in the implementation of transfer decisions.